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Following Retbleed, The Combined CPU Security Mitigation Impact For AMD Zen 2 / Ryzen 9 3950X

It largely depends upon the particular workload for exactly how severe the Retbleed mitigation can impair the performance along with the other relevant CPU security mitigations.

Obviously disabling SMT for greater security can impact workloads like code compilation performance and other multi-threaded jobs.